Case Reports

On 21 July 2017, 28-year-old Nicholas Hunter (a pseudonym) was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne after he pleaded guilty to a number of Commonwealth and State child pornography offences.

A 34-year-old Victorian man was convicted and sentenced in the County Court at Melbourne for having transmitted child pornography material and using a carriage service to menace, harass and cause offence via Facebook in mid-2016.

On 8 September 2017, 42-year-old Western Australian man Dr Aaron Voon was sentenced in the Perth District Court to a total effective sentence of 18 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months. Dr Voon had earlier pleaded guilty to eight separate charges, which included filming boys' genitals at urinals and producing and possessing child pornography material in four countries, including Ca

New South Wales man, 49-year-old David Porte had his sentence increased to two years and nine months imprisonment for accessing and possessing child pornography and possession of a prohibited weapon following a successful appeal of the inadequacy of his original sentence. The non-parole period is one year and six months.

A relief school teacher who was a former secondary school teacher and school welfare officer was arrested on 22 January 2015 following a search warrant being executed at his home in Mebourne’s West Footscray.

A 56-year-old man, Steven Maloney, formerly employed as a weapons training simulator operator at Robertson Army barracks Darwin has been sentenced to 10 years and 4 months imprisonment for child exploitation offences.

A Melbourne man who was charged with 27 offences for forcing young females in Australia and overseas to send sexually explicit pictures and videos of themselves to him by threatening to send explicit images of them to their families and schools has had his sentence increased on Crown Appeal to 10 years and 5 months with a non-parole period of 7 years and 3 month. He was originally sentenc

Queensland man, 35-year-old David Malcolm Harris was sentenced to an effective sentence of four years and six months for utilising a file sharing application and an internet transfer service to trade child pornography material via the internet.